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The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
So how hard could it be. As input we have something like Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:07:07 in UTC, and we’d like to turn this into 1737094027, the notional (but not actual) number of seconds that have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. Trying to figure this out led me to discover many ‘surprise features’ and otherwise…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 19, 2025 | The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++ by PascalW | 131 | 96 |
